A couple of quick years ago, it appeared like Constance Wu was a star on the upward thrust. After the blockbuster hit, Crazy Rich Asians, it gave the impression of her career would take off like Jennifer Lopez or Jennifer Aniston. But that didn't happen. Instead, Constance pulled herself from all social media for 3 years.
Wu just released her debut memoir, Making A Scene. In it, she talks about how she ended up in the psychiatric ER of a mental clinic and how she is now preventing her way back.
The actress opens up about being "canceled", and allegations of rape and on-set sexual harassment. She unearths her emotions about being known as "difficult" and tries to explain some of her conduct and why she said some of the issues that practically made her a pariah.
Wu says that she isn't easiest and has made mistakes, and her new memoir explains some of the "why" and so much of the fallout.
8 Constance Wu Stars In Fresh Off The Boat
Constance Wu became born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. After college, she began getting supporting roles in motion pictures and TV. In 2014, she were given the function of Jessica Huang in the ABC sitcom, Fresh Off The Boat. The show become a success, and she gained vital acclaim.
Constance says that enjoying Jessica, a Taiwanese mother with an accessory, helped her embody her Asian identity, “The softest spot of all become her Asian-ness — her demeanor, her values, her accent."
Constance was named a breakout star of the 2014-15 television season by E!.
7 Constance Wu In Crazy Rich Asians
After her Fresh Off the Boat success, Constance starred in Crazy Rich Asians, a romantic comedy based on the Kevin Kwan novel. The film was the story of a Chinese-American professor who goes to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family and finds out they are "crazy wealthy".
This was Constance Wu's breakout hit. The movie was a critical and commercial success. Wu was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a NAACP Image Award.
Wu signed on to reprise her role in the two sequels to the movie. She also starred in Jennifer Lopez's film, Hustlers. And other offers were coming her way. It looked like there was no stopping her.
6 Constance Wu's Misstep
In 2019, it seemed that Constance Wu thought she was "too excellent" for Fresh Off the Boat, the TV series that made her famous. After the news broke that the series was being renewed for a sixth season, Wu tweeted, “So upset right now that I’m literally crying. Ugh. F***.” She followed that with, "F***ing Hell".
A follower then tweeted to her, “Congrats on your renewal! Great news :)” . Her reply, which has since been deleted said, “No it’s not.”
She tried to clarify afterwards, saying in a statement “I love FOTB. I was temporarily upset yesterday not bc I hate the show but bc its renewal meant I had to give up another project that I was really passionate about. So my dismayed social media replies were more about that other project and not about FOTB. But I understand how that could feel interconnected and could get muddled." She then added, “I do be apologetic about that and it wasn’t nice and I am sorry for that.”
5 Was Constance Wu Canceled?
Both enthusiasts and Constance Wu's Fresh Off the Boat colleagues, did not respect Wu's damaging tweets about the show being renewed. Even after the apology, the backlash turned into swift and fierce. The sentiment was that she became ungrateful and unappreciative of the show that made her well-known. Fans thought Wu believed she was "too good" for the tv series now that she became in a success movie.
She gained many adverse and nasty tweets, together with one from a journalist which stated that Wu, “has a reputation for being rude, petty, mean-spirited, and ungrateful.” The bullying were given so bad that she removed herself from all social media for 3 years.
In a recent episode of Facebook Watch's "Red Table Talk", Constance stated about that time, “It’s actually hard for me to discuss without getting emotional. People had been basically canceling me for being ungrateful and ungraceful." She went on to say, “They were saying I didn’t think of the other people’s jobs on the show, how selfish that was and how I was, like, behaving like a diva.”
Wu says there was a lot more to the story.
4 Was Constance Wu Sexually Harassed On Fresh Off The Boat?
Constance Wu is now revealing that she was sexually harassed on the set of the TV series.
She says, “What people didn’t realize was that during my first couple of years on ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ I was sexually harassed, and I was intimidated, and I was threatened all the time," by a producer on the display.
She continued, "This producer, he is an Asian American, but because this show was sort of a beacon of representation for Asian Americans, and I sort of, became a symbol of representation, I didn’t want to sully the one show with sexual harassment claims against the one Asian American man who was doing all this better work for the community.”
She said, in her book, that this producer talk her into going to an LA Lakers game with him. At the game, he touched her thigh and grazed her crotch. She writes that once the show was a success, she felt comfortable telling him to stop because she was no longer afraid to lose her job.
3 Constance Wu's Sexual Assualt Allegations
Constance Wu shared something else about her past. She said she was raped at 22 years old but did not realize it was rape at the time. It happened on a second date with a man.
She shared, "So I said, 'No really, I'm not in a position to have intercourse.' I used clear language. But he did not fight me, he simply became so gentle. He kissed me on the forehead, he became being so loving and gentle. And then he just did it anyway."
She talked about why she didn't realize it was rape, "I didn't sign in it as rape because we're so used to considering of it as violence. It changed into a quiet enjoy. Even despite the fact that my words have been clear, him having intercourse with me changed into quiet."
She writes in her ebook, "I did not consent to sex. Maybe it wasn't violent, but it surely turned into rape. Period."
2 Did Constance Wu Attempt Suicide?
Wu shares that a DM from another Asian-American actress was "the straw that broke the camel's again". The actress called her "a blight on te Asian-American community".
Constance said, “I read these DMs from an Asian actress, somebody who should have been my ally. And I felt like nothing I could ever do would be enough. I felt like the only thing that would prove to her that I felt as bad as she thought I deserved to feel would be if I died.”
Wu recounts in her memoir that she climbed up to the fifth floor ledge of her NYC apartment building with the intention to jump. Luckily, a friend came to check on her, got her off the ledge, and checked her into a psychiatric emergency room. She got the help she needed.
1 Constance Wu's Memoir And Comeback
Constance Wu is back on social media after her three-year absence. She has written Making a Scene to tell her story.
She is also starring in The Terminal List, a suspense drama on Amazon Prime. Now, she looks at things differently, "I'd spent so much of my public life frightened about what other people concept of me. ... It become freeing to in any case let that pass," she says in her memoir. "Today, I work on a TV show the place I used to be in a position first of all dignity and the confidence of enjoy. A real brand new get started. I used to be welcomed on The Terminal List with out intimidation or concern, and in consequence, I feel like I am getting to be myself on a suite." Chris Pratt is her costar on the series.
Wu also has the family friendly movie, Lyle, Lyle Crocodile being launched. It is a great film for her two-year-old daughter, with boyfriend Ryan Kattner, to peer.
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